Huafanchunzhengming

Chapter 160 Birthday Ceremony (5)

The concubines could not compete with Wei Rou and Lu Chun, and I heard that they were not favored. The new emperor put all his energy into the government and had no intention of focusing on the harem.

I had no choice but to stop and focus on how to eat and have fun.

Waichao is different, there is an undercurrent hidden under the calm.

Chonghua seems to have a fiery temper, with no room for sand in his eyes, but he does things steadily.

He cleverly balanced the power among the important ministers, and quietly inserted some children from poor families into key departments.

Chonghua made great efforts to govern, and wanted to pull Li Guo, which was falling into crisis day by day, out of the quagmire;

Zhong Weiwei worked hard, trying to defeat Mei Xun in the tea fighting meeting, regain the tea monopoly, and let the tea farmers in Li country have food.

They are all doing what they think they should do, moving forward without hesitation.

In a blink of an eye, the new year is approaching, and Chonghua's birthday is also approaching.

It snowed heavily last night, making the red plums in the plum garden even more fiery red and delicate.

Empress Dowager Wei embraced the snow-white fox fur and held the hand stove inlaid with gold and jade, sitting gracefully and luxuriously in the warm pavilion, looking at the red plums outside the pavilion, and said indifferently:

"How are you going to participate or not?"

Concubine Lu Taigui sat at an arm's length away from the Empress Dowager Wei, wearing a luxurious sable fur coat, and with her eyes downcast, she pulled the charcoal balls in the copper hand stove with copper chopsticks.

Casually said: "It sounds like a very well-planned plan, but you can be sure that the person you found can really have that ability to defeat Zhong Weiwei? You and I have seen her tea skills, it is not so easy to defeat .”

Empress Dowager Wei raised the corners of her lips: "Over the years, how many times have you seen me lose?"

Concubine Lu Taigui was her defeated general, and she frowned unhappily when she heard this:

"Didn't you boast a long time ago that you want to kill and maim Zhong Weiwei, or let her part ways with His Majesty? See how much you have done?"

Empress Dowager Wei was not angry: "That's because you watched the fire from the other side. If you and I were of the same mind, she would have died without a place to bury her. Back then, you and I joined forces, didn't we succeed in separating them?"

Concubine Lu Taigui deliberately wanted to argue with Empress Dowager Wei: "Yes, yes, after so many years of separation, His Majesty not only entrusted her to raise the eldest son of the emperor, but also gave her the Lanjiang tea garden.

It's fine for the concubines to be passable, and I don't see anyone he dotes on, and no one's belly is bulging!

If it weren't for the age of the eldest son of the emperor, I would have thought it was Zhong Weiwei's own! "

Empress Dowager Wei became impatient: "The ancestors of the Lu family and the Wei family have agreed long ago that the empress will be the one who is able to live in it. When something happens, the two families should join hands to deal with foreign enemies. You will not forget this agreement, will you? Do you want to do it or not?"

Concubine Lu Taigui was not afraid when she saw her get angry, she rolled her eyes and threw it over: "Then why do you ask? Of course do it. Let her have a peaceful life for so long, it's time for her to move."

Empress Dowager Wei laughed: "Don't worry, as long as we overcome this difficulty hand in hand, let the children fight for the rest. As long as Lu Chun can win His Majesty's heart, I will never stop it."

Concubine Lu pouted, who would believe you!But it's true to get rid of the scourge of Zhong Weiwei first.

The 25th of the twelfth lunar month is Chonghua's first birthday after succeeding to the throne, so it must not be easy.

The palace was decorated with lanterns and festoons, and there was a lot of joy. From the courtiers to the concubines, and then to the dignified internal officials, there were gifts.

According to the arrangement of the day, Chonghua got up early to accept the courtiers' worship and gave them a banquet.

Go back to the palace in the afternoon, accept congratulations from concubines, and then hold a family banquet with Empress Dowager Wei, concubines and others.

In the afternoon, the gate of Qingxin Hall was opened.

Empress Dowager Wei came in with Wei Rou, Lu Chun and others, waiting for Chonghua to return to the palace to celebrate his birthday.

Aunt Qian and other female officials were busy arranging for Empress Dowager Wei and the others. Zhong Weiwei didn't get involved in these matters, and just stood aside quietly, waiting for Empress Dowager Wei to call.

After the Queen Mother sat down, the first thing she did was to let her go again.

Holding him in his arms, he asked affectionately: "And what gift do you plan to give your father?"

Ever since Zhong Weiwei pretended to be sick again in Wan'an Palace to rescue Zhong Weiwei, Empress Dowager Wei suddenly calmed down and stopped torturing him, she was very gentle and kind.

And even though he was still vigilant, he could barely answer her with a sentence or two: "The words of the emperor's grandmother are a single word."

Empress Dowager Wei raised her eyebrows, looked around, and said with a smile, "Yo, you can actually write. Take a look."

Zhong Weiwei sent up the rewritten characters by himself, which was a picture of "Shou".

The brush strokes are immature and nothing new, but at this age, it is considered pretty good.

"You taught it?" Empress Dowager Wei smiled at Yan Yan, her eyes flickering.

After getting Zhong Weiwei's affirmation, his smile became brighter, and he looked at Concubine Lu Taigui and said:
"Worthy of being the daughter of a generation of great Confucianists, the living man named by the first emperor, the little man, who was not very good at speaking when he first came, but in her hands, he looks decent."

Concubine Lu Taigui glanced at Zhong Weiwei, and said with a smirk: "I don't know when the inner court female officer can also be the prince's enlightenment master.

Shouldn't it be done by His Majesty himself, or by choosing famous teachers and scholars from other courts? "

Lu Chun smiled and said nothing, and Wei Rou, who had "reformed from evil and returned to righteousness", immediately excused Zhong Weiwei: "Perhaps it was arranged by His Majesty, right? Zhong Tongshi?"

Speaking of this matter, Zhong Weiwei really didn't get Chonghua's approval, it was just a whim, and she wanted to learn again, so she taught.

Afterwards, Chonghua didn't say anything, and asked Aunt Qian to send him the pen he used when he was a child.

It's just that the majestic eldest son, if she, a female official in the inner court, and Tong Shi, who is in charge of the court's obscenity, said it would be very unpleasant, and it would seem that Chonghua didn't pay enough attention to it.

She was respectful: "It's just a child's nonsense and writing for fun. The official enlightenment will wait until the eldest son of the emperor is six years old, and His Majesty will personally enlighten him."

Concubine Lu Taigui snorted: "In my opinion, it is not the eldest son of the emperor who is making trouble, but you, Tong Shi, right?

Having said that, what do you do all day with Tong Shi's salary?Make tea?The Pope writes?Do not do business! "

Lu Chun pinched Empress Dowager Lu, and said with a smile, "I wonder what gift Zhong Tongshi plans to present to His Majesty's birthday?"

Zhong Weiwei's gift was an ancient tea scripture that she corrected and re-copied. It was neatly framed and packed in a good box, so it looked decent.

She lightly said: "The words of Concubine Hui Xian are just a book, not worth money, and not worth mentioning, just barely covering her hands."

Wei Rou said, "What book? Can you let me read it?"

Wei Rou was regarded as Zhong Weiwei's "life-saving benefactor" on the bright side, Zhong Weiwei didn't want to show her face in public, so he immediately smiled and asked Xiaotang to bring the book.

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